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George Gershwin. Variations on "I Got Rhythm" [24] Constant Lambert. Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches [25] Maurice Ravel. Rigaudon, from Le Tombeau de Couperin [26] Steve Reich. The Desert Music [27] Tehillim [19] Ned Rorem. String Quartet No. 2 [28] Déodat de Séverac "Temps de neige" [29] Igor Stravinsky. Concerto for Piano ...
George C. Mason & Son (1871–94) was an American architectural firm in Newport, Rhode Island. It was a father-son firm, the principals being George C. Mason (1820-1894) and George C. Mason Jr. (1849-1924). Mason established his office in 1860, and was the first true architect to work out of Newport.
Balanchine conceived the idea of Movements for Piano and Orchestra for Diana Adams, one of his muses at the time, and Jacques d'Amboise as the two leads. In his memoir, d'Amboise wrote that Balanchine "didn't want to be bothered with anyone else" whenever he created a new piece for one of his muses, but ballet master John Taras wanted Balanchine to have an understudy for Adams, and suggested ...
Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period (c. 1907–1919), the neoclassical period (c. 1920–1954), and the serial period (1954–1968). Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Taneyev.
The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
Igor Stravinsky, c. 1920s. Igor Stravinsky began studying composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1902. [1] [2] He completed several works during his time as a student, [3] including his first performed work, Pastorale (1907), [4] and his first published work, the Symphony in E-flat (1907), which the composer categorized Opus 1.
Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky.
Pulcinella is a 21-section ballet by Igor Stravinsky with arias for soprano, tenor and bass vocal soloists, and two sung trios. It is based on the 18th-century play Quatre Polichinelles semblables, or Four similar Pulcinellas, revolving around a stock character from commedia dell'arte.